Pre-K to Grade 3
Our proven Professional Learning resource has raised K/1/2 reading levels from 49% to 85% in just two years. You can accomplish the same!
Unlock on-demand resources proven to help 85% of primary students read at grade level. No more juggling schedules. Access hundreds of tools for small-group or individual professional learning anytime, anywhere.
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Five one-hour workshops that can be experienced on your school or district schedule: staff meetings, new teachers, in grade groupings, or district Pro D Days – anytime that is convenient for you.
The authentic Science of Reading Research emphasizes that Foundational Skill mastery is critical to fluent reading by grade three. Our JL package is designed to ensure this goal is achieved. This resource can be easily integrated with and enhance any existing program or literature based approach.
Individual teachers or grade-groups or school and district staff can engage in professional learning as needs arise, as resources are needed, and as personal/professional time and funding permits. Historical roadblocks are eliminated.
Research identifies: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension as the highest priority skills for children to master in their earliest experiences. Our resource features each of these skills and more advanced skills too.
Goodbye Teachers Pay Teachers! Our resource provides hundreds of instructional videos, video workshops, proven games and practice activities, screening, assessment and data collection tools, digital JL books, international expert input.
Some children fall behind because they need more explicit instruction than others – only possible through targeted small groups. Teachers need tools to screen, assess and track skill advancement weekly. We provide these teacher-friendly tools.
The Joyful Literacy ‘Blitz’ strategy has proven to be an effective tool that doubles reading levels at the K/1 level in one year. Our resources provide teachers with practical strategies and resources for boosting reading levels and closing literacy gaps.
The resources in this package have been developed and field tested in classrooms in the last five years. It will provide your teachers with years’ worth of professional learning resources that have been expertly curated and neatly organized in a single place.
The purchase of this package will provide schools or districts with a lifetime access to a rich collection of proven, science-based professional development resources that can be printed, downloaded, and streamed.
September to June: Month by Month Instructions
Our team has developed proven strategies for ensuring that Foundational Skills can be mastered by 85% of a class. The guide describes how teachers can achieve that. The magic is in the interactive links that teachers can easily use.
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200+ Printable Games and Activities
Early Childhood Researchers have proven that young children learn best through play and practice. We have ‘gone the extra mile’ to provide access to hundreds of proven literacy strategies that children love as they practice the five Foundational Skills.
Covering All Foundational Skills
We describe the research base for each Foundational Skill; explicit instructions on how to assess each skill; specific examples that confirm when mastery is achieved; and when more instruction and practice is needed.
14 X Marks Mastery Charts
These Charts support teachers with a tool that: details Foundational Skills, provides instructions on how to assess them, records each child’s skill mastery and analyses data so that grouping for interventions becomes simple.
6 Video Presentations from Literacy Experts
Unlock on-demand professional learning with expert-led videos on the alphabet, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary. word study, and intervention. Instant access to essential strategies – anytime, anywhere.
18 Videos with over 9 Hours of Practice
Dr. Janet Mort and Dianne Bassendowski enthusiastically dialogue and story-tell about proud successes and key issues they have faced as they implemented highly successful Joyful Literacy strategies in numerous school districts.
50+ Links to our Favourite Resources
Discover even more helpful resources across the web. Explore links to our favourite websites for literacy games, articles, and videos created by literacy experts around the world.
100+ Pages of Our Top Literacy Articles
Access our collection of research-based articles on each of the top literacy skills. You will gain insight into the skills and the tools you need to support your students.
Two of Our Best Selling Books
Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 1: Early Learning Classroom Essentials and Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 2: Putting on The Blitz which cover practical strategies for rapidly closing literacy gaps.
5+ Hours of Professional Learning Videos
Empower parents with on-demand summer support videos! Parents will learn about essential literacy skills and explore 100s of fun, easy activities to boost these skills at home and beyond—all summer long!
20 Videos + Handouts + Digital Book
This bundle includes 21 videos, 20 handouts, and a digital copy of the Born to Read book. These resources equip parents with the knowledge and practice strategies to teach the five most important literacy foundational skills at home.
These videos represent the most important foundational skills (pillars) that the research identifies for children to read fluently. The sixth video identifies intervention approaches that have proven to work.
Discover playful, effective strategies to teach and practice the alphabet with ease and confidence.
Learn phonemic awareness with simple, interactive activities to boost student skills right away!
Make fluency practice fun with daily poetry! Engage students with rhythmic, exciting, and effective strategies.
Join Maria Walther as she shares engaging books and strategies to boost student comprehension successfully!
Explore phonics, orthographic mapping, and other essential word study skills with lots of playful examples!
Join Dr. Janet Mort as she explains this dynamic, fun, and highly effective intervention strategy.
Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 1 combines over 40 years of expertise, research, and practical strategies to create a comprehensive classroom approach that ensures literacy success for 85% of children.
Joyful Literacy Interventions Part 2 covers playful “Blitz” interventions, individualized skill tracking, structured assessments, and interactive games to rapidly close literacy gaps for vulnerable children, ensuring effective and engaging learning.
A fun, active phonological awareness game where students move, sing, and create rhymes together!
A fast-paced soccer game where students read words and flick milk caps to score points!
Crawl, roll, and identify words before chopping them in half—add ninja music for extra excitement!
Monitor recognition, sounds, and mastery of upper-case and lower-case alphabet letters over time.
Track students' progress in rhyming, isolating blending, segmenting, sound manipulation and more.
Record students’ development of oral vocabulary, word knowledge and usage and see their growth throughout the year.
Our Joyful Literacy (JL) Team is led by Dr. Janet Mort and includes exceptional classroom teachers, international researchers and authors, and numerous literacy experts. Since 2013, the JL Team has hosted over 35 in-person and online literacy summits, attracting over 15,000 teachers across North America and the world. Our play-based literacy framework is proven to achieve 85% success rates for early readers and is the foundation of our incredible professional learning resources.
Your license is a one-time purchase and provides you with lifetime access to all of the resources. There are no hidden fees or pesky subscription renewals.
Joyful Literacy will process your license using secure payment option of your choice, including credit card, cheque, and purchase order.
License holders can contact the Joyful Literacy team to receive support with accessing, downloading, or streaming their professional learning resources.
Scaled pricing options
Free (Valued at $300/hour)
